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After some talking we settled in for rest at the Avalon Guest House where I stayed a year ago last January. I really wanted to bring Bev here because there is a peace here that I cannot explain. All is going well so far.

My thoughts are on the meaning of this Passover season and the hardships that so many are going through with illness and death. ...

... come along for the walk. He finally left me and jumped on the others. Apie, the monkey actually made the tour. Walked past a large number of mango trees with mangoes dripping from the branches on way back to car, were very tempting to take but it was clearly marked for the monkeys. Do they really live in a natural and wild environment which includes mangoes? On way home we stopped at the curios shops. These are rows and rows of little ...

Another guest staying in my room was a white South African also in his 50s. He spent about two hours relating much of his experiences from growing up in Apartheid in the 60s and 70s through liberation in the 1994 to the resulting violent years and up to the present. He led one of the first high school protests against apartheid in the early 70s and was rewarded with 3 months in jail without charges followed by 9 more months on trumped up charges. He kept a lower profile after that.

... overlay and rhythm to it. Very unsettling. Then in the afternoon to Soweto. This was extraordinary and very confronting. Particularly the 15 minutes we spent walking through one of the slums with a young man who lives there. He showed us his shack - 15 feet square made of corrugated iron with obvious cracks and holes, on the dirt floor a double mattress. He shares it with his sisters. His mother works away as a domestic and only comes to see them once a month. How do ...

Africa the craddle of mankind. Drove to Pretoria, the administrative capital of SA. Streets are lined with Jaconranda trees in bloom, purple flowers. We visited the Vortrekkers Monument depicting the history of SA. Learned the role of the Voortrekkers (the Dutch pioneers) in the development of SA. Visited the grounds of the Union Buildings where Mandela ...